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title: "DataForSEO Backlinks API / List the backlinks pointing at a domain"
description: "DataForSEO tool dataforseo-backlinks-backlinks-live-ai on looot: input fields, $0.024 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Lists the backlinks pointing at a domain, subdomain or page, one row per link. Send target (a domain without https:// and www., or a full page URL). limit defaults to 100 and is capped at 1000; mode one_per_domain returns one link per referring domain. Returns total_count and items, each with url_from, url_to, domain_from, dofollow, rank, page_from_title, first_seen and last_seen.

- **Tool id:** `dataforseo-backlinks-backlinks-live-ai`
- **Provider:** [DataForSEO](/providers/dataforseo)
- **Job:** [List the backlinks pointing at a domain](/reference/jobs/backlinks-domain-list) (`backlinks.domain.list`)
- **Price:** $0.024 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `filters` | array | no | Array-based filter expression. A single condition is a 3-element array: [field, operator, value]. Combine conditions with ["and"\|"or"] between them: [condition, "and", condition]. Max 8 filters. Operators: =, <>, in, not_in, like, not_like, ilike, not_ilike, regex, not_regex, match, not_match Use % with like/not_like to match any string of zero or more characters. Examples: Single: ["rank",">","80"] Combined: [["page_from_rank",">","55"],"and",["dofollow","=",true]] |
| `limit` | number | no | the maximum number of returned backlinks. Example: 100 |
| `mode` | string | no | results grouping type optional field possible grouping types: as_is, returns all backlinks one_per_domain, returns one backlink per domain one_per_anchor, returns one backlink per anchor default value: as_is |
| `offset` | number | no | offset in the results array of the returned backlinks optional field default value: 0 if you specify the 10 value, the first ten backlinks in the results array will be omitted and the data will be provided for the successive backlinks |
| `order_by` | array | no | results sorting rules optional field you can use the same values as in the filters array to sort the results possible sorting types: asc, results will be sorted in the ascending order desc, results will be sorted in the descending order you should use a comma to set up a sorting type example: ["rank,desc"] note that you can set no more than three sorting rules in a single request you should use a comma to separate several sorting rules example: ["domain_from_rank,desc","page_from_rank,asc"] |
| `target` | string | yes | domain, subdomain or webpage to get backlinks for required field a domain or a subdomain should be specified without https:// and www. a page should be specified with absolute URL (including http:// or https://). Example: "example.com" |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 1 real answer:

```txt
{ id, items: { alt, rank, type, url_to, dofollow, tld_from, url_from, domain_to,... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect dataforseo-backlinks-backlinks-live-ai` prints all of it.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"dataforseo-backlinks-backlinks-live-ai","input":{"target":"example.com","limit":100},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "dataforseo-backlinks-backlinks-live-ai",
    input: {
      target: "example.com",
      limit: 100,
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "dataforseo-backlinks-backlinks-live-ai",
        "input": {
            "target": "example.com",
            "limit": 100,
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:backlinks.domain.list` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/backlinks-domain-list).